Handle



L. M, WILLEY March 7, 1933.

HANDLE Patented Mar; 7, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LLEWELLYN MARSH WILLEY, OF HOFOSICK FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 SPECIALTY INSULATION MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC., OF HOOSICKVFALLS, NEW `YORK, A.'

CORPORATION 0FI NEW YORK i HANDLE.

Application inea November 7, i928. serial No.'317,7s1.

This invention relates toimprovements in handles. More especially it relates to molded composition handles which Yare suitable for a varietyof household and 'other uses, such as for electrical appliances, pots, pans, cutlery and tools, andrfor numerous other uses where a light, strong and du-rable handle is desired, or one affording insulation against heat or electricity;

` It is among the objects of the invention to embody in such handles structural features making for economy in manufacture, providing important heat-insulating advantages, and attaining needed strength and durability with a minimum weight of material. And still another object is to reduce in number the operations required for complete,

manufacture of a handle, ythus to expedite and simplify production and to lower production costs. It is moreover an important :feature that the improved handles are adapted for ready andzquick substitution for old or broken ones, and this by the housewife, or any person, without any particular ,mechani-y cal skill. l Y i f These-objects and results may be attained by molding the handle in two half-shell portions or sections, each constituting -a longitudinal half of the complete handle, and each half-shell formed with struts rising interiorly from the bottom ofits cavity to the plane of` cleavage, when half shells are put together, to make a completelocal strut to take the compression-of a screw that fastens the handle to its utensil. The external contigurations of the sections of handle are. deter! mined by the internal contour of the mold,

which may be made as desired. The mold also may have means by which holes for the fastening screws may be formed in the sections duringthe molding operation. The

-Y final product of the molding is such that no painting, enamelling or other like inishing operation 1s necessary, as a suitable coloring agent may be 'embodied inthe mass of mate- I Inl assembling, two halves come together with their internal struts abutting together,

or clampingl the tang of an implement bek tween them. rlhus internal solidity is pro,- vlded at two or more locations along the handle And the securing devices, preferably bolts, convenientlywmay extend through these solid portions toreffect the double function of'securing the handle sections together, and of securingV thev whole handle to the device on which it is tov serve. .Because of the half-shell form of the handle sections, holi lows are provided within a completed handle, which are air pockets that tend to maintain the handle cool; contribute lightness, for

r Y Figure 3 is an elevation of a handle of the pot, pan cover, or other same shape but adapted for afdiiferent style of fastening to a iiatiron or other article;

Figure 4 is a plan showing vdetail otone end of Figure 3; l

Figure 5 is an elevation of a handle of similar shapebut with modification adapting it for stillv a diii'erent style of fastening, as toa spoon; -Y

Figure 6-is a end of Figure 5;

' Figure 7 is an end elevation'ot` Figurel 3 or 5 in section on 7 7;

Figure Sis thesame on 8&8; Figures 9 and 10 are end elevationsof a modification of theformzof either Figure 3 or 5'; kand are in section onr planes similar to vFigures 7 and 8 respectively.

plan showing detaillrof one 'f Referring to thek drawing, eachv handle vso 5 the form of bosses which coact in the assemblage to produce solid cross-walls at two or moref locations along the handle. The walls 14 divide the hollow of the handle into a series of air-pockets 16, which are heat insulating when 4the handle is in use. And .the clamping :and attaching devices, such as .the bolts 18, (Figure 10) may extend through pression to the hollow handle where resistwhere it is in effect. solid, as Ais illustrated, Fig-10,' with reference toa'n'otherform.

According to the invention the hemdles are to' be'pmoldedY of some vsuitable composition material. Bakelite is an example of material which may beformed in the mold to constitute the handle. Synthetic rubber substitutes may likewise'be used, of which colasta. is an example, and other materials which can be condensed or formed by .heat-and pressure in a mold. W'ithsuch material, and. with molds arranged in gangs, it is practicable to produce a considerable number of completed handle Sections'at each single yoperation of the press. A feature of industrial importance is that the handle sections come from the molds in finished' form `ready for simultaneous assemblage and attachment to the device von which the handle is to serve. This is accomplished by'simple addition of coloringkagents to the plastic mass prior vto"moldjing andV by they making ofthe mold with suitable smoothness or even glosson rits interior surface, to 'be impart-fed 'tof the product molded therein.'

Referring now to Figures 1 and 2 ofthe drawing, the handle there seen is ,particularly `adapted for Vtea-urns, coffee-pots, stove doors andthelike upright surfaces, and for lids, flati'rons or other horizontal surfaced article. Inthis' form the lower portion 12 of the handle is (as seen in Figure 1) formed, inthe molding operation, with .two exterior bosses or spacing Varms 131 whose. endsA are adapted to abut .against the uprightside of a-coifee pot or av stove door; or against -the horizontal top of a flatiron, and to be secured thereto bybolts, (not shown) each of which extendsthrough Van arm 13,V inthe hole`19,

and through -`abuttinginternal Astruts 14 .of the two Yhalf shells. Holes forj the passage portions are molded, byscores in the molds'. For this purpose there may be pins which project into the mold atrlesired locations,

?6?? cal 'wththat o f theportion 20 thatreplaccs ance to strains and stresses isgreatest,-and

they serving as'cores around lwhich the' plas.

10. A socket 21 at each end is formed by the coming together of faces which are slightly rebated in each portion, as molded. And a hole 29 is molded at each end for reception of a bolt. Each socket 21 is adapted to receivea flat tang which may extend from a iiatiron, the side of a pan, or the like. The tang may extend in axial direction into the end of the handle, or it may extend into a side of the handle at one end "in the plane of cleavage. Y pass throughthe two portions Lof 4handle-and these solid walls, thus applying their com- And- -in leither caseea boltV can through the tang to clamp the latter iirmly between the same sort of struts 14 as in the handle ofFigures'1,2;which rise to the surface where forceV is tolberexerted. In Figure l theyrise into mutual contact. eIn Figure Sft'he sp acev for tang. isbetween fthem.

device suitable forv ,fasteningthe .handle tofcutlery, tools and other'implements is seen cesses, .and willbe. apparent eXter-nallyonly f at necessaryI points, wheretangs-are intended to enter.v An embodiment oft-his design is shown-in `Figures 9 :andi 10, where' thertang space between portionsAOia-nd 421is41; and outside of.V that Vthe visible-space between portiensis verythin, as -at-43.

. l cla-imas-my invention: y

. y1. A handle, comprising twol hollow-shell sections, comprising molded l.heat-insulating composition material of organic` corgin, adapted to fittogether and combined with screw fmeans,penetrating both sections to hold them together ;z each ofthesershellsections having two interior. medial: bosses, .one ofwhich lis locatedinear. `each-endof the Vhaaidle, and each-.lof which bosses ,stands opposed toa boss on the .other section.;V andthererbeing anworiicezfor a screw to passtthroughaeach said pair of bossesandzacross ythe :cleavage fbetween ishell .sections with zthe i :boss i xmaterial closely surronndingthescrew, each fof which screws secures 4thesections"together and-to; the devicefon which the vhandleiis .to serve. 1

1:;2. Adiandle,'comprisingitwoi:hollow shel sections :rada-*pted to ifta together fand -;.combined with screw means,penetratingbotlrsections` to hold' them together; the saidsections comprising :molded: heat-insulating composition :material` of organic Vorigin one of these shelllgsections having interiorly two bosses, each .extending into the .ho'lflowf from 'cone :of its shell side wallsltof the other,I these' two fico bosses being` located'zrespectively nearfithe of the first, and having exterior bosses constituting continuations of these said interior bosses; and there being an oriiice for a screw to pass through all three of said bosses which are in line, and across the line of cleavage of shell sections; with theboss material surrounding closely the screw which clamps the l sections to each other and to the device on which the handle serves, thus extending from the head of the screw, which is beyond the first mentioned section, to the .said device for which the handle serves. v 3. A handle, comprising two hollow shellsections, of which one section has a pair ofr. exterior tubular legs which are at their ends adapted for engagement with an article to be held by the handle, one leg being near each end of the handle; and each section has, in' teriorly of the handle, two abutment faces for mutual engagement of the sections in teriorly of the handle, these being at each of two separated locations along the handle, one of these abutments on one section regis" tering with an abutment ofthe other section, which said locations correspond to the said locations of exterior legs; there being an opening extending through the mutually reg istering faces at each said place of registering each said opening in turn registering with the opening throughone of said exterior tubular legs; and said registering openings being adapted to receive fastening means passino therethrou h.

xSigned at oosick Falls, New York, this 30th day of October, 1928.k Y L. MARSH WILLEY. 

